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Huguenot

[ US /ˈhjuɡəˌnɑt, ˈjuɡəˌnɑt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries

How To Use Huguenot In A Sentence

  • Many Huguenots were expert throwsters and weavers and they made a major contribution to the development of the silk industry in Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland.
  • Ribault soon had to abandon the other two ships, the last reminders of a planned Huguenot empire.
  • Among the prominent Huguenot guests was their military leader, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny. Bloodlust
  • And how did Huguenot outlook differ from that of their cross-channel puritan brethren?
  • He ordered that a huge mole be built across the harbour at La Rochelle which made any Huguenot attempt to land supplies impossible.
  • Would the Huguenot Bourbon family, if successful, tolerate a catholic monarchy?
  • Britain is a mongrel country of Britons, Celts, Scots, Picts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Jews, Huguenots, members of the Empire and Commonwealth, and many more groups.
  • The English so-called, though many were Irish, Scots, Scots-Irish, Dutch, French Huguenots, Germans, Swedes, and others were divided among thirteen often quarreling colonial governments. George Washington’s First War
  • When those bloody wars in France for matters of religion (saith [6619] Richard Dinoth) were so violently pursued between Huguenots and Papists, there was a company of good fellows laughed them all to scorn, for being such superstitious fools, to lose their wives and fortunes, accounting faith, religion, immortality of the soul, mere fopperies and illusions. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Protestantism in the Rhineland, and by school and pulpit laboured to re-Catholicize the Empire, Rome spurred Mary Stuart to the Darnley marriage, urged Philip to march Alva on the Netherlands, broke up the religious truce which Catharine had won for France, and celebrated with solemn pomp the massacre of the Huguenots. History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)
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